HADES! THE LADIES! BEING EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A DRAPER: CHARLES CAVERS, ESQUIRE LATE OF BOND STREET LONDON, WEST Being extracts from the diary of a draper Charles Cavers, esquire late of bond street, London. edge chipping on spine label but have spare spine label attached to back endpage. rough cut side edge pages. browning to endpages. The humor is dry but delectable in this book about fashionable London in the frenetic 1920s. It is a faux-diary, purportedly written by a draper (dressmaker). The diarist is a dandy. He adores women but only to dress them, and they never veer far from his sentiment, as he opines on a variety of subjects relevant to that era, such as nightclubbing, the Season, raising hemlines, beauty, etc. As to marriage, he laments that the bridal dresses he creates aremore enduring than the blessings of the Church. There are colourfast of brown on the paper, some stains and marks on the spine. Written notes inside the opening page.